“Before I started volunteering and then interning with them, I didn’t even know that they just rehabilitate houses in Lansing for families and not just build them,” Sullivan said. “It’s so much more than just swinging a hammer.”
Improvements included the resurfacing of the parking lot, a permanent performance area, twice as much bicycle parking, walkways, basketball hoops and new landscaping.
"Crunchy's wasn't robbed, but I can't speak to what happened outside or out back (of Crunchy's)," Krueger said. "I'm not sure how this rumor got started, but it sure is a pain in the butt."
Occurring every Friday through the end of August, the Lake Lansing Band Shell Committee reigns in various musical acts, from barbershop stylings, to polka, to classic rock, and grants attendees free-of-charge parking and admission.On Friday the band Soulstice jammed out on saxophone, trumpet, bass, electric guitar and drums, playing top 40 hits and inciting dancing among the crowd.
The vandals had spray painted “Seniors 2014”and “2014” in black and white spray paint on several areas of the building.
For MSU students from China, who make up almost 10 percent of the undergraduate population, the event is not widely discussed.
In size, the East Lansing Food Co-op is a mere speck compared to the more than 180,000 square feet that makes up the Meijer in Okemos. But it, along with other small grocers in the area, still draws students and locals in on a daily basis.
In a bipartisan vote last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to defund the Drug Enforcement Administration’s crackdowns on state-legal medical marijuana patients, caregivers and dispensaries.
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Artists were challenged with creating a work of art that would “be functional, while also adding an artistic element to this every day piece of public infrastructure,” according to the art commission website.
Instead of enforcing a quiet reading environment, the East Lansing Public Library is encouraging its guests to speak in their language of choice.
The amendment would make changes to the current property maintenance code of the City of East Lansing. The changes would affect how the city addresses renting violations.
As 300 same-sex couples legally married in Michigan on March 22 continue to be stuck in legal limbo, a lawsuit that would require the State of Michigan to recognize the marriages is moving forward.
Lansing Township filed suit against Lansing Board of Water and Light, or BWL, earlier this month over payment for a storm drain needed to correct groundwater contamination issues.
The consequence of increased incarceration isn’t just more people housed in the prisons, it means more public dollars are going there too.
Sous Chef Jim Cummings and his staff at South Pointe dining hall worked for weeks to perfect their two chili recipes.
Instead of traveling far away to explore new sites, Greater Lansing residents were encouraged to be tourists in their respective towns Saturday.
East Lansing residents may have recycled a record volume of materials for the 20th anniversary of Recycle! East Lansing, according to city officials.
East Lansing's train station on Trowbridge Road is due for an update this summer, but the site still remains quiet.
Each Saturday behind Fire Station No. 1 on Abbot Road, $5,000 bikes are given to those in need.